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There was robust George Romney, up with the dawn and jogging about the sun deck in his sneakers, later chiding asthenic reporters: "I was up while you fellows were still asleep." At safety drill, Romney and Ronald Reagan found themselves in the same lifeboat. Their fellow potential survivors showed up in the prescribed orange life jackets, but the putative rivals, jacketless, were plainly determined to either sink or swim on the strength of their own buoyancy...
...This area of thought suggests that the day of the caveman, whose present-day counterpart paraded his virility with such readily identifiable characteristics as the Prussian haircut, is in decline; the day of the womanly man who burns his draft card and lets his hair down is beginning to dawn. Flowing locks were once a symbol of virility, as the story of Samson bears witness,* and it is no longer safe to disparage the vigor of the man in shoulder-length curls. He may be a poet. But he may also be a member of the Hell's Angels...
...Brando, it develops, is a latent homosexual. The unknowing object of his love is a virginal enlisted man who, in turn, is shyly in love with Taylor. Nightly, as Brando wanders outside, the soldier enters his house, steals up to Taylor's bedroom and watches her snooze until dawn; then the tame voyeur flees back to the barracks...
...Washington Post reported Monday: "Three antiwar demonstrators were arrested for picking flowers in Lafayette Park [across from the White House] and several others were injured in an ensuing foray with police at dawn yesterday...[Police] said more than a dozen flowers had been plucked and then tossed to the ground. Picking flowers is a violaiton of Park Service regulations...
Puff to the Rescue. Just below the DMZ, the U.S. Marines at Con Thien came under heavy attack again. First, the shells began falling on the camp. Then, under cover of a heavy 400-shell barrage, 900 North Vietnamese regulars made a pre-dawn assault on Con Thien in an attempt to overrun the embattled Marines. Lobbing smoke and tear-gas grenades, the North Vietnamese reached the southwest perimeter of the base before they were pinned down by withering counterfire from the Marines. To the Marines' assistance came Puff-the-Magic-Dragon gunships, their fast-firing miniguns raking...